Professional Development: More Than Just a Checkbox on a Form | Edutopia - 11 views
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Many teachers are finding their PD through connectedness.
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Many teachers are finding their PD through connectedness
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Many teachers are finding their PD through connectedness
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List your Education Events with UKEdChat - 0 views
Common Core Academies | Digital textbooks and standards-aligned educational resources - 7 views
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Through the end of the year, Discovery just sent me a note that they are offering these three common core academies at no cost. Here's the info from Steve Dembo. I've done some work with their SIEMENS STEM Academy and am a sTAR Educator and everything they do is top notch. If you can work it out before the end of the year, this is something you'll want to do. From Steve Dembo: "We know that implementing the Common Core can be an uphill climb. That's why Discovery Education is proud to partner with educators to offer Common Core Academies in ELA, Math, and Leadership at no cost. From now until the end of the school year, educators across America are invited to sign up for an Academy and receive: practical strategies to implement CCSS reseach-based instructional practices best practices in using digital content resources and digital tools for immediate classroom integration Discovery Education Common Core Academies offer one day of immersive professional development and two follow-up virtual sessions at no cost to support educators and leaders in effectively implementing the Common Core State Standards. Educators may choose from three Academies offering a unique combination that brings together best practices in digital integration with proven research-based instructional practices: Literacy and the Common Core in a Digital World Teaching and Assessing Common Core Math in a Digital World Leadership Strategies to Support Digital Literacy and the Common Core"
Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Online Teacher Development Works Best - 15 Reasons Why - 0 views
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I've started this article with quite a bold statement, but it's a conclusion that I have been coming too over the course of quite a few years now. I should really put this into context though, as most of the teacher training I do deals with pedagogical training for the use of technology and is most often delivered during intensive face to face sessions, usually with groups of teachers working in a computer lab.
Peru's ambitious laptop program gets mixed grades - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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what we did was deliver the computers without preparing the teachers
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the missteps may have actually widened the gap between children able to benefit from the computers and those ill-equipped to do so
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Inter-American Development Bank researchers were less polite."There is little solid evidence regarding the effectiveness of this program," they said in a study sharply critical of the overall OLPC initiative that was based on a 15-month study at 319 schools in small, rural Peruvian communities that got laptops."The magical thinking that mere technology is enough to spur change, to improve learning, is what this study categorically disproves," co-author Eugenio Severin of Chile told The Associated Press
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PodOmatic | Podcast - FLATs Podcast - 4 views
TED | Talks | List - 11 views
Bisharat! (EN) - 1 views
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"Welcome to the website of Bisharat! A language, technology, and development initiative. Bisharat* is an evolving idea based on the importance of maternal languages in sustainable development and the enormous potential of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to benefit efforts in the area of language and development. Anticipating the gradual introduction of computers and the internet to rural communities in Africa, the current focus of Bisharat is on research, advocacy, and networking relating to use of African languages in software and web content. This website is always in development... Your comments and suggestions are welcome. To contact Bisharat, e-mail to: bisharat @ bisharat . net"
How the arts deepen students thinking | The Compass Point - 16 views
Why Interactive White Boards are Used Ineffectively in Classrooms - 12 views
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An interactive White Board (IWB) or SMART Board has the potential to deliver content better than traditional methods of teaching. Why? Because it provides multi-media functional interaction across audio, video, and computer media. It is also ideal for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners. These qualities of an IWB also promote the dynamic delivery of content (if used to its full potential) in an engaging manner, which allows students to interact with science or math content their self. Examples include: * data manipulation * responding to data * even creating data So with all these attributes - "How are interactive white boards unsuccessfully used in science and math classrooms?" For the most part - not effectively!
The Beginner's Guide to 21st Century Teaching and Learning - 27 views
50 Free Open Courseware Classes for Special Education Teachers - 22 views
ASH's 23 Things for Web 2.0: 3: How are others using blogs? - 23 views
Comparing ICT use in education across countries | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Educa... - 7 views
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we still do not have reliable, globally comparable data in this area
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basic answers to many basic questions about the use of technology in schools around the world remain largely unanswered
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Recent World Bank technical assistance related to ICT use in education has highlighted the fact that internationally comparable data related to ICT use in education do not exist -- and that this absence is a problem
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